Johanna Annola is Associate Professor of Social History and Academy Research Fellow at the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences, Tampere University, Finland.Hanna Lindberg is  Research Fellow at Åbo Akademi University and Tampere University, Finland.Pirjo Markkola is Professor of History at Tampere University, Finland and the Director of the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences.

• 1. Experience, Institutions, and the Lived Welfare State; Johanna Annola, Hanna Lindberg, and Pirjo Markkola.- Part I Encounters with Institutions.- 2. Navigating Imprisonment: Tactics and Experiences in an Eighteenth-Century Danish Prison Workhouse; Emilie Luther Valentin.- 3. The Experience of Prison in Finnish Female Inmates’ Letters from the 1880s to the 1900s; Johanna Annola.- 4. Re-negotiating Single Motherhood within the Helsinki Mother and Child Home in Post-War Finland; Riikka Suominen.- Part II Lived Social Citizenship.- 5. The Construction of Early Social Citizenship: The Lived Institution of Poor Relief in Mid-Nineteenth Century Finland; Heikki Kokko.- 6. Encountering Benefits for Families: Layers of Lived Social Citizenship in Finland in the 1930s and 1940s; Minna Harjula.- 7. From Humiliation to Compensation? Experiencing Poverty and Welfare Institutions among Red Widows from the Civil War, 1918–1945; Mervi Kaarninen.- Part III Experiencing Institutional Spaces.- 8. Managing Disability and Constructing the Nation in Interwar Poland: The Lviv Disabled Veterans’ Home; Oksana Vynnyk.- 9. The Walled-in Illness: The Twentieth Century Finnish Tuberculosis Sanatorium as Lived Space; Heini Hakosalo.- 10. “It Went All the Way Down to the Shoes”: Experiences of Institutionalization in the Danish Special Care System for the Intellectually Disabled, 1933–1980; Klaus Petersen and Sarah Smed.- Part IV Dealing with Institutional Experiences.- 11. Lived Residential Schools in Times of Crisis and Change: Debating the School for the Deaf in Borgå through Experience in the 1930s and 1980s; Hanna Lindberg.- 12. Stories of Silence, Echoes of Events: The Family as a Changing Site of Illness; Marie Meier.- 13. Redressing or Excusing the Past? The Evaluation of Sexual Child Abuse in the Swedish Redress Scheme for Historical Abuse in out-of-Home Care; Johanna Sköld, Bengt Sandin, and Johanna Schiratzki.